[villages07]

Z ... I have had Tracfone for years; a great service for the minimal cell phone user. Basically about $100 per year for 400 or more minutes and unused minutes roll over to the next year.

That being said.... last December, I bought a new Samsung 301 Tracfone to replace an old Motorola and expected to transfer my old number and minutes.

They said, to keep the number they would have to send me a new SIM card for the Samsung. OK, no big deal. Installed it and after some tech service calls, all was working.

The only BUT is that the overall quality of phone coverage/service for me is noticeably worse now. I think, depending on the model of phone and perhaps the SIM card they sent me.... you either end up on the CDMA network or the GSM network.

I believe my old phone used CDMA and the new one is GSM.

So, I would be very leery of a phone that used GSM. Mr 07 has an older phone using CDMA and his works much better.

Most of this is opinion and observation.... I have no hard facts to support it.